i could be entierly wrong but from what i remember being told the elements of atoms all have their own frequency or vibration. is this true? and furthermore would changing the vibration or frequency change the element of the atom.
im not asking if this is physicality possible now.. but is this how the system works, or do i have a fundamental misunderstanding?
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different elements are determined by how many protons are in the atom.
In the center of an atom is the nucleus, a ball made up two types of particles, protons and neutrons. How many protons determines the element. For example hydrogen is just a single proton, carbon has 6 protons, oxygen has 8 protons, lead has 82 protons, etc.
Neutrons don’t change the element but the amount of neutrons does determine the Isotope, which can give the element other properties. For example, Uranium, with 92 protons. Normally Uranium has 146 neutrons as Uranium-238, but the isotope of uranium we use for nuclear reactors and bombs, Uranium-235, has 3 less neutrons, which make it much more unstable and way more radioactive.
Elements can bind to each other in some cases to form compound molecules, or split apart back into individual atoms. However breaking apart or combining atoms together to form new elements is much harder and tricky. This is known as Nuclear Fission and Fusion, respectively. While we have obviously achieved both, we have only really scratched the surface of both concepts, made more difficult by the immense amount of energy that is released when you split or combine atoms. The sun is a case of natural Nuclear Fusion, its currently fusing hydrogen into helium as we speak, and unstable elements like uranium found in nature slowly decay over time into small elements as their unstable protons and neutrons fly away.
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